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N54AE

Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1

Valid Missouri

N54AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2005 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 28, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron
Model
206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
Serial number
45157
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A6D598 (octal 51552630)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 26, 2005
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 28, 1978
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00112250

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Evac Ems INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1001 Boardwalk Springs Pl Ste 250
O Fallon, MO 63368-4100

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1989-02-06Bonney James H AMERICAN EAGLET · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N54AE, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 26, 2005, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 28, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N54AE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bonney James H AMERICAN EAGLET (serial 54, cancelled February 6, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N54AE: Accident on October 27, 2024 at Canal Winchester, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA25LA027Accident on October 27, 2024 at Canal Winchester, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 · operated under 135

An in-flight collision with a bird while in cruise flight.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA027 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data